(28 Nov 2023)
RESTRICTION SUMMARY:
ASSOCIATED PRESS
ARCHIVE: Rome - 6 September 2018
1. High-ranking Roman Catholic Cardinal Raymond Burke arriving at Italian Senate for conference on the Catholic Church, refuses to answer questions
2. Wide of news conference
3. SOUNDBITE: (Italian) Cardinal Raymond Burke:
(Answering question: Do you think Pope Francis should resign following the Vigano' letter and if he knew about it before it came out):
"I have already answered these questions in other places, where I said that I was shaken reading the text (of Vigano's letter). How could I have had that reaction if I had participated in it? Let's be serious here."
4. Wide of news conference
5. Burke leaving surrounded by journalists
ASSOCIATED PRESS
ARCHIVE: Rome - 3 October 2023
6. Burke arriving at “The Synodal Babel” conference
7. Conference speakers on stage
8. SOUNDBITE (Italian) Cardinal Raymond Burke:
“The five ‘dubia’ deal exclusively with the perennial doctrine and discipline of the Church. They are not an agenda of the Pope and certainly not an agenda of the five of us, the Cardinals."
10. Various of Burke leaving by car
STORYLINE:
Pope Francis has punished one of his highest-ranking critics, Cardinal Raymond Burke, by yanking his right to a subsidized Vatican apartment and salary in the second such radical action against a conservative American prelate this month, according to two people briefed on the measures.
Francis told a meeting of the heads of Vatican offices last week that he was moving against Burke, because he was a source of “disunity” in the church, said one of the participants at the Nov. 20 meeting.
The participant spoke on condition of anonymity because he was not authorized to reveal the contents of the encounter.
Francis said he was removing Burke’s privileges of having a subsidized Vatican apartment and salary as a retired cardinal because he was using the privileges against the church, said another person who was subsequently briefed on the pope’s measures.
That person also spoke on condition of anonymity because he wasn’t authorized to reveal the details.
Burke, a 75-year-old canon lawyer whom Francis had fired as the Vatican’s high court justice in 2014, has become one of the most outspoken critics of the pope, his outreach to LGBTQ+ Catholics and his reform project to make the church more responsive to the needs of ordinary faithful.
Twice, Burke has joined other conservative cardinals in issuing formal questions to the pontiff, known as “dubia,” asking him to clarify questions of doctrine that upset conservatives and traditionalists.
The cardinals then leaked the questions to the media after Francis didn’t immediately reply.
And on the eve of Francis’ big meeting of bishops last month, known as a synod, Burke presided over a counter-synod of sorts just steps away from St. Peter’s Square.
There, Burke delivered a stinging rebuke of Francis’ vision of “synodality” as well as his overall reform project for the church.
Calls and emails to Burke and his secretary weren’t immediately returned.
The Vatican spokesman, Matteo Bruni, referred questions to Burke.
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